Slough - 1.) to cast off 2.) the skin cast off by a snake or insect - sluf 3.) a small creek or backwater 4.) a city in England
Publishing small press literature since
1973
Slough Press has been publishing fiction, poetry, and essays for over thirty years. The focus of the press is on contemporary literary authors who experiment with form, communicate to a wide audience, and hope to influence the culture positively. The Press has received grants from the Texas Arts Commission and has won numerous awards.
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New TITLES IN 2011
Christopher Carmona
Are you beat? This book of poetry sets out to redefine what it means to be beat. Working to reaffirm that the beat keeps moving from generation to generation and as it moves it changes with the times, beat is a declaration that beat poetry is alive and well, mixing together life in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, life as a Chicano, and life as a beat poet. This book serves to keep the tradition of the Beat Generation alive and well where it should be...in poetry.  Connie Lane Williams has bared her soul in this sometimes startling, rebellious, often comedic, occasionally dramatic collection of poems in Dancing Backwards in Texas. From the humor of self revelation, to the comfort of tradition, this collection is never boring, but full of the rhythmic twists and turns of the West Texas landscape set against the harmonies of a global consciousness.
Not playing by the rules, life is always an adventure for Williams as she states
her case against social pragmatism in 113 pages of poetry depicted in romantic defiant lyric verse or the structure of the Mass for the Mysterious Muse. From “Kosher Dills,” a poem about a waitress outside Austin, to “Wounded Hawk,” an elegy for urban sprawl, Williams dances us backwards through the West Texas flatlands to the hill country of Austin leaving a taste of “Origami Moon” and “West Texas Wind” on our lips. ISBN: 978-0-941720-03-8 Ken Fontenot  New Orleans in the late 1970s
If anyone takes the characters or events in this story as personal, forget it. I dreamed this story. I have a good unconscious and an even better imagination. As for the wonderful real life people I mention, I hope they know they’ll belong to the ages without my well-meaning, but ultimately meager help. ISBN 978-0-9827342-1-6 available B&N
 The Big Thicket is a historical novel, reminiscent of Twain's Huckleberry Finn, set in the Big Thicket down near Beaumont, Texas. Learn more about this book by clicking here.
New book for young readers by Jerry Craven Searching for Rama’s Spear 
Searching for Rama’s Spear is a book of wonder for all ages. Craven writes of the Texas Big Thicket in such clear language that readers can hear the Thicket, smell it, touch and taste it in all its mysterious beauty. “Young adult readers and advanced adolescent readers will thoroughly enjoy following the adventures and misadventures of these characters while also learning about the Big Thicket.”
Searching for Rama’s Spear Jerry Craven Big Thicket Sleuth Review by Janet K. Turk
Craven, Jerry. Searching for Rama’s Spear College Station: Slough Press, 2011.163 pp. Illustrations. Notes.$15.00 paper. ISBN 13: 978-0-9417201-0-6.
REVIEW OF TEXAS BOOKS Volume XXVI Issue 3 Summer 2011
New chapbook of poems by
Christopher Carmona
 This is a collection of poems working to keep the beat. Mixing together life in deep south Texas, life as a Chicano, and life as a beat poet. This book serves to keep the tradition of the Beat Generation alive and well where it should be...in poetry. ISBN: 978-0-9827342-4-7 Christopher Carmona hails from the Rio Grande Valley in Deep South Texas. He is beat poet following in the tradition of beat poets like Jack Kerouac, Bob Kaufman, and Raul Salinas. He is deeply interested in exploring the intersections of Native Americans and Latinos. He believes in practicing poetry as a form of social resistance. Much of his work works to redefine what it means to be ‘beat’ as a poet. He has been published in The Writers’ Block, Beatlick Art & News, World Audience Literary Journal, and Tecolote. Currently he is working on his first book of poetry simply titled beat and is editing an anthology of Beat Texas writings for UT Press with Chuck Taylor and Rob Johnson. He can be contacted at bluewordsredwords@gmail.com Hedwig Gorski
A GREEN BOOK
of her best Performance Poetry begins the
the new Micro Book Series, poems to carry with you
in the tradition of pocket books. No batteries required!
Selected among the top 25 books submitted for
the Balcones Prize, 2011
POETIQUE
Speak-Songbook
 NEW MICRO BOOK SERIES ON SLOUGH: Poetique is a micro book 4.25" x 5.25" of 60 pages: selected performance poetry in the same sequence as on Hedwig Gorski's audio CD of radio broadcasts w/ East of Eden Band, Send in the Clown. Poetique is the first in a series of new micro books made to carry around for an emergency of emotion or gift to friends who don't enjoy trite greeting cards by mailing the paperback book directly to them from amazon.com. Costs less than a Hallmark and says much more. Save yourself postage and surprise your friends and loved ones in a new and unique way.
Make performance poetry your cover tunes.
Second edition 2009
Hedwig Gorski's archival memoir of an experimental pedestrian verse drama theater piece, Booby, Mama!, created in 1978 provides a view of Austin's early avant-garde, its soft underbelly. It is not exactly a feminist work, more feminine and cross-gendered from the other side of the tracks. Purchase the signed & numbered paperback second edition on amazon.com
or in a
Collection of short stories by
former Dobie-Paisano Fellow
Mick White
Lowell Mick White is the author of two forthcoming books: a story collection, Long Time Ago Good (Slough Press, 2008), and a novel, That Demon Life (Gival Press, 2009). His work has been published in over two dozen journals, including Callaloo, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Short Story. In 1998 he was awarded the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters. White is currently a PhD student at Texas A&M University, where he specializes in creative writing and regional literatures, and teaches creative writing and freshman composition. ISBN 978-0-941720-04-5 Houston poet
KEN JONES
I know of no poet writing today who blends the anger and hard edginess of street/performance poetry with the informed elegance of formal verse as effectively and artfully as Ken Jones. As I read the powerful poems of Ceaseless Greasepaint in Combat Stance, I feel and hear the fiery, verbal blasts of a host of two-headed, imaginary dragons: Eminem and Wallace Stevens; Allen Ginsberg and William Blake; Walt Whitman and Lorenzo Thomas. Where can one find poems about drunk tanks, American Indians, teeth bleeding red at the bit, angst, the worship of dung, sex, materialistic greed run amok, spiritual yearning, and Santa Claus causing a disturbance in the mall? All within the covers of a single book? In Ceaseless Greasepaint in Combat Stance, that’s where. In poem after carefully crafted poem. Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate  Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street is an archival memoir of an experimental cut-up pedestrian verse drama theater piece, Booby, Mama!, created in 1978 provides a view of Austin's early avant-garde, its soft underbelly. It is not exactly a feminist work, more feminine cross-gendered from the other side of the tracks.Purchase the signed & numbered paperback 2007 first edition
on amazon.com or in a Kindle version
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